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Example sentences for: mistake

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Weisberg's mistake reflects a common misconception.
However, Keyes added, "In terms of what I think we believe to be relevant for the purposes of running for president … maybe the biggest mistake I had made in my public life … was not to have spoken out on the issue of the right of the unborn before I did."
This heart warming true story will reach teens with two powerful messages: first, save sex for marriage; secondly, if you have made the mistake of engaging in pre-marital sex, you can change your ways.
In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.
Some discern a feminist slant to the film's "ballsy depiction of man's inhumanity to woman, and man" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin praises its "critical detachment" and "coolly stylized exaggeration," which make it "impossible to mistake In the Company of Men for simple bigotry."